David Reed.KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN David Reed's paintings play fast and loose with the conventions of abstraction and representation--an exercise that could be very dull--but the luxurious, even brazen appeal of his seemingly flattened flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form."-out yet liquescent li·ques·cent (l  -kw s  nt)adj. brushstrokes remains irresistibly seductive. If the high-concept angle--paintings that "represent" abstraction, or paintings as part of a theatricalized, video-supplemented miseen-scene--is less easy to swallow, it places Reed in a historical arc at once venerable (Gerhard Richter) and trendy (Douglas Gordon). Kunst-museum curator Konrad Bitterli has assembled a retrospective of approximately fifty of Reed's paintings and two installations. Prepare to submit to clever beauty. Sept. 1-Nov. II; Kunstverein Hannover, Jan. 25-Mar. 2.
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